United (N) | FA Cup Final | Post-Match Thread

Trickyblues said:
Beautiful. Atmosphere at Wembley was incredible
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I think you could see Peps appreciation of that at the end. It was tremendous support today.

Didn’t think we were at our best today with a few wayward passes but it was still much better than their crap. Gundogan - Legend. What a great hit for the first goal.

Haaland magnificent work rate today too. Brilliant.

Not sure what those rag bellends were trying near Wembley Park after the game but the police were into them quickly.
 
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Two down, one to go!

Not our best performance, but at this stage of the season results are more important than performances.

I only started feeling the sense of occasion when in a shop earlier I saw a fella with a City shirt on. He said he was from Poland & was visiting family who bought him a City shirt as a present, as Blue is his favourite colour.

He said everyone had been commenting on his shirt today & that he thought Manchester was very civilised because if this match was in Poland, the fans would've been fighting all week! :-/

HOWEVER, as I was leaving a young Rag came in & started going on about the fella's shirt, claiming we'd all turned into City fans just because of our recent success!

The Rags I know weren't even that arsed about winning & doing a domestic cup double. For them it's all been about stopping us repeating their 1999 treble! Sad fucks!

This season was always about the Champions League for me, but winning the league from so far back was a bonus. Shutting the Rags up today by beating them in the FA Cup final is an additional bonus, but it's all about next week!

It was a dream start from us & a brilliant 12th second goal from Gundog, but we seemed patchy in our play throughout the rest of the first half. We looked fit, but our normal rhythm just wasn't there.

I've no issues with the penalty. It wasn't deliberate hand ball from Grealish, but the latest rules have eliminated referee "interpretation" which is better than feeling like the ref is on our side or against us when contentious decisions like this are called. If it was the other way around, I'd want the penalty.

We were far better in the second half & it was a relief when Gundog's second of the game bobbled in. We managed the game to a successful conclusion, with my only gripe being I thought Grealish should've been subbed around 65 minutes, as he seemed to be struggling to get into the game.

It's telling that Foden was trusted to replace Super Kev in centre midfield. That's a few matches that he's played centrally & it seems Pep's finally starting to trust him in that position which makes who's leaving & arriving in the summer even more intriguing.

ManUre huffed & puffed & predictably threw caution to the wind & caused us a few hairy moments in the process, but we held firm & saw the game out to lift the trophy.

My MoTM was Josep Guardiola! No overthinking! No weird team selections! No weird formations! We did what we do & left it to the Rags to unpick our lock which they ultimately failed to do.

This is the team & formation 90% of us would've picked, so hopefully we'll see more of the same in Istanbul. I feel for Aké, but at this stage I don't see the point in upsetting a settled first eleven who're winning.

Roll on our second Champions League final next Saturday. Hopefully this time we'll do ourselves justice! )(
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I think you could see Peps appreciation of that at the end. It was tremendous support today.

Didn’t think we were at our best today with a few wayward passes but it was still much better than their crap. Gundogan - Legend. What a great hit for the first goal.

Haaland magnificent work rate today too. Brilliant.

Not sure what those rag bellends were trying near Wembley Park after the game but the police were into them quickly.
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Am at NW calling the academy but my daughters filled me in Can I just say Fk off you red cunts Ta
 
BlueindianNewcity said:
Imagine considering FA cup final as a warm up game for bigger final ;)
Joking aside, you're spot on with the observation.
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Despite that little flurry by the rags near the end I thought we started to find some rhythm with about 30 to go. May augur well for next week.
Was not impressed by some of our passing in the final third.
But we won so Pep was proved right.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Despite the win I'm still MASSIVELY fucked off with VAR today. A penalty against Grealish (by the letter of the current law correctly given) that would 100% not be given at the other end, a deliberate assault on Akanji by Casimero not given and a Stonewall penalty not given on KDB.

Thankfully we were resolute and it didn't matter in the end, but fucking hell, they tried DESPARATELY to cheat us today.
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Yip,the De Bruyne one was even more baffling but if it’s at the other end given,casimero one again one of our players it’s a booking absolutely with the possibility of a red,they don’t hide it anymore the thing is neutral’s and people just tuning in who have no actual connection to football or fans of other teams can surely now see what’s going on,the day we start to get this type of help start worrying as it means we could be in a similar place to them rag cnuts football wise..
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Despite the win I'm still MASSIVELY fucked off with VAR today. A penalty against Grealish (by the letter of the current law correctly given) that would 100% not be given at the other end, a deliberate assault on Akanji by Casimero not given and a Stonewall penalty not given on KDB.

Thankfully we were resolute and it didn't matter in the end, but fucking hell, they tried DESPARATELY to cheat us today.
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Don't be convinced by this letter of the law bullshit. There's been loads of handballs exactly like this not given due to proximity, speed of ball, natural position ect in the premier league over the last few months. They have 100% relaxed the rules since Xmas just bizarrely not in this game ( I wonder why?). If this was a champions league then I'd say it's a fair cop as they are strict on the rules but pigmol are a bunch of corrupt twats.
 
deano ou812 said:
Yip,the De Bruyne one was even more baffling but if it’s at the other end given,casimero one again one of our players it’s a booking absolutely with the possibility of a red,they don’t hide it anymore the thing is neutral’s and people just tuning in who have no actual connection to football or fans of other teams can surely now see what’s going on,the day we start to get this type of help start worrying as it means we could be in a similar place to them rag cnuts football wise..
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Fred two fouls both worthy of bookings - no booking and then he gets booked later on. Joke.
 
RiversideBlue said:
Thought the on field ref wasn't as bad as is being made out. It was VAR that was poor.

The ref got the Casimeiro foul the wrong way and should have given a yellow (I don't think it was bad enough for a red) but he initially didn't give the Grealish handball and didn't have much choice to stick with his decision once VAR sent him to the screen.

I thought the KDB foul was 'sometimes their given, sometimes their not'.

He hardly added on any injury time (I was pessimistically expecting double digits).

He wasn't too card happy.

It was VAR that was wank.
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uweuweuwe said:
starting to calm down now. had to stop going to games awhile ago now as City were literally killing me. on 80mins I was doubled over in pain but it was worth it as I hate those fuckers. I know everyone is going on about champion league etc but to me beating them in the 1st Manchester final is up there as my favourite City moment and something they can never claim. so get in City and take that you red bastards.

Also please go easy on the players performance. we came up against a team who didn't want to play football and were looking to take the game to penalties. Earling might not have scored but he worked his arse off all game even at the end when he could have gone for Glory he did what was best for the team.
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You have got to chill mate we are fucking ace
 
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